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The Purchase College mens tennis team showed that the regular season was not a precursor to the postseason.

During the regular season, Purchase lost to the Polytechnic Institute of New York (NYU-Poly) in a Skyline Conference match. NYU-Poly went on to an undefeated record in the conference and a top seed in the Skyline Conference Championships while Purchase was seeded fourth.

Purchase reversed the regular-season outcome, winning the last match for a 5-4 victory over NYU-Poly in a Skyline Conference Men's Tennis Championship semifinal at the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing on Friday.

Purchase will play at the winner of No. 3 Mount St. Mary-No. 2 Farmingdale State on Saturday, at a time to be determined.

The Panthers trailed NYU-Poly, 2-1 after three matches, before taking four of the final five. After Brenden Keeling won his match, 3-6, 6-0, 6-4, at first singles, to even the team match at 4-4, freshman Michael Sorge, a Stepinac graduate, punctuated it.